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Hepburn Shire is a local government area in Victoria, Australia. In 2013 the council in Hepburn embarked on a community engagement process to help create the council's strategic plan. The process involved a series of town meetings, an online forum with OurSay, culminating in a 'Conference of Big Ideas' workshop...

Buckinghamshire County Council have taken a different approach to PB. Rather than trial a small grants pot, as most would when starting out with PB, Buckinghamshire piloted 4 different kinds of PB at once. Buckinghamshire is aiming to integrate PB as 'the way we do community engagement'.

Using a methodology based on the identification, acknowledgement and fact that various different settlements have diverse and dissimilar needs members of three settlements were given the opportunity to envision the desired future of their community through neighbourhood planning.